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Amey Fearon Mathews 11/10/2008 |
“Discipline is remembering what you really want.” ~ Doug Keller
“There is contentment and tranquility when the flame of the spirit does not waver in the wind of desire.” ~ BKS Iyengar
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Shannon Brophy, Yoga.com Staff 6/6/2004 |
| Seva is the spiritual practice of selfless service. Seva, a Sanskrit word, springs from two forms of yoga, Karma Yoga which is yoga of action and Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of worship inspired by divine love. Seva is one of the simplest and yet most profound and life changing ways that we can put our spiritual knowledge into action. |
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Victor 10/13/2009 |
This invocation is a prayer honoring and expressing respect to Patanjali, the Indian sage and author of The Yoga Sutras. It is often chanted in yoga classes taught in the style of yoga master BKS Iyengar.
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Charles MacInerney 5/31/2005 |
Yoga is built upon a foundation of moral disciplines called Yamas and Niyamas. These precepts are common to most cultures: do not steal, do not harm, do not hoard, speak the truth, etc. Asteya (truthfulness) and Ahimsa (non-violence) are important aspects of any spiritual life, and readily embraced.
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Janiss Garza 2/21/2003 |
| A discussion of Yoga's ethics usually begins with Ahimsa, the Yama of non-violence. Although there are nine other Yamas (disciplines) and Niyamas (observances), non-violence seems to sum up all of Yoga's philosophy - and the spirit of India, its country of origin - particularly well. After all, aren't most yogis vegetarians who refuse to harm animals, and wasn't the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi a beacon of non-violence for the twentieth century? |
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Raghavan Iyer 6/25/2002 |
| Throughout its long and largely unrecorded history, Indian thought preserved its central concern with ontology and epistemology, with noetic psychology as the indispensable bridge between metaphysics and ethics, employing introspection and self- testing as well as logical tools, continually confronting the instruments of cognition with the fruits of contemplation. |
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Raghavan Iyer 6/25/2002 |
| It may be pointed out here that a system of philosophy however lofty and true it may be should not be expected to give us an absolutely correct picture of the transcendent truths as they really exist. Because philosophy works through the medium of the intellect and the intellect has its inherent limitations, it cannot understand or formulate truths which are beyond its scope.... |
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Raghavan Iyer 6/26/2002 |
| Almost nothing is known about the sage who wrote the Yoga Sutras. The dating of his life has varied widely between the fourth century B.C.E. and the sixth century C.E., but the fourth century B.C.E. is the period noted for the appearance of aphoristic literature. |
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Raghavan Iyer 6/26/2002 |
| The classic text of Patanjali opens with the simplest statement: "atha yoganushasanam', "Now begins instruction in yoga. " The typical reader today might well expect this terse announcement to be followed by a full explanation of the term yoga and its diverse meanings, perhaps a polemical digression on different schools of thought and some methodological guidance concerning the best way to use the text. None of this occurs. |
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Raghavan Iyer 6/26/2002 |
| Patanjali initiated his teaching concerning praxis by calling attention to the three chief elements in the discipline of yoga: tapas, austerity, self-restraint and eventually self-mastery; svadhyaya, self-study, self-examination, including calm contemplation of purusha, the Supreme Self; and ishvarapranidhana, self-surrender to the Lord, the omnipresent divine spirit within the secret heart. |
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